Word: gop
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...changing cultural landscape with conservative philosophy makes him the ideal Republican candidate for 2008. Senator John McCain wasn’t the only Republican to open an exploratory committee on Nov. 16: Rudy Giuliani was right behind him. For the sake of the Party’s future, the GOP should hope that Giuliani moves in front of McCain in the months to come...
...minority because of the failed war - and Bush's refusal to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld until after the November elections, instead of before, when the move might have saved some of their seats. "Iraq is the anchor around the Administration's ankle," says a senior GOP aide. "A lot of our guys are going to let the Administration take the heat...
...GOP reaction to Tuesday’s losses suggests that most Republicans do recognize the true breadth of the problems the party faces. But regardless of their level of understanding, recovery will take time. Republicans cannot pretend that simply disavowing prior errors of judgment and promising a fresh start will instantly solve their problems. The credibility gap that Congressional Republicans’ corruption, arrogance, ineptitude, and hopeless defense of the Bush administration has created is simply too great. The negative impact of the past can only be erased with time...
...same-sex couples of any county in the nation. A whopping 83 percent of San Franciscans voted for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters passed a city-wide resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. No wonder the GOP is so scared of the place...
...importance of taxes and the importance of security." Just 41% of Virginians in the exit poll said that the war in Iraq was extremely important, compared to 46% who said "values issues" were. These are the kind of numbers that Karl Rove was trying to conjure for every GOP candidate, and, by all conventional wisdom, they should have worked in Allen's favor-Virginia passed an anti-gay marriage amendment, after...